Solidarity: The Unfulfilled Project of Polish Democracy
Krzemiński, Ireneusz
Solidarity: The Unfulfilled Project of Polish Democracy - Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2019 - 1 electronic resource (352 p.)
Open Access
This book is a collection of essays which span three decades, capping research into the Polish Solidarity movement and its impact on social change. The major one reports on the author’s 1981 study on the formation of the Solidarity movement and trade union, one of two research projects on Solidarity carried out at the time. The idea of debating (deliberative) democracy fostered by Solidarity proved an unfulfilled utopia. It was abandoned by the new political elite and by Poles, who used freedom to develop individual, ambitious and aggressive career paths in order to attain West-European living standards. While Polish religiosity and the Catholic Church, led by Pope John Paul II, vitally promoted peaceable resistance to communism, now the Church has morphed into an anti-democratic political and cultural actor.
Creative Commons
English
b16065 9783653068511 9783631709900 9783631709917 9783631672709
10.3726/b16065 doi
Social theory
Political structure & processes
Political activism
Changing role of the Catholic Church Debating (deliberative) democracy Democracy Democratic opposition Krzeminski Non-violent civic movement Polish Project Solidarity Solidarnosc The state and human rights Trade union Unfulfilled
Solidarity: The Unfulfilled Project of Polish Democracy - Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2019 - 1 electronic resource (352 p.)
Open Access
This book is a collection of essays which span three decades, capping research into the Polish Solidarity movement and its impact on social change. The major one reports on the author’s 1981 study on the formation of the Solidarity movement and trade union, one of two research projects on Solidarity carried out at the time. The idea of debating (deliberative) democracy fostered by Solidarity proved an unfulfilled utopia. It was abandoned by the new political elite and by Poles, who used freedom to develop individual, ambitious and aggressive career paths in order to attain West-European living standards. While Polish religiosity and the Catholic Church, led by Pope John Paul II, vitally promoted peaceable resistance to communism, now the Church has morphed into an anti-democratic political and cultural actor.
Creative Commons
English
b16065 9783653068511 9783631709900 9783631709917 9783631672709
10.3726/b16065 doi
Social theory
Political structure & processes
Political activism
Changing role of the Catholic Church Debating (deliberative) democracy Democracy Democratic opposition Krzeminski Non-violent civic movement Polish Project Solidarity Solidarnosc The state and human rights Trade union Unfulfilled